PartInfo report
Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2012 6:18 am
There does not appear to be a forum related directly to my concern, but this one appears to be closer in subject matter; so, I am going to ask it here. Let me know if I should move it elsewhere. TeraByte offers several free products for downloading here: https://www.terabyteunlimited.com/downl ... ftware.htm, one of which is called "PartInfo". Its purpose is to give a report showing information about the disk MBR.
I have this product installed and set to run each time my machine boots, and its boot-time report is appended to the previous one using the Windows Task Scheduler with this command: cmd /c "C:\batch files\MBRPartInfo\PARTINFW.EXE" >>c:\temp\partinfw.log. From time to time I have compared the output data with that in the separate report which I ran initially when I installed the program. I am no expert in MBR issues, but it is my impression that the MBR data in these reports should not change unless I change something in the partitioning or data writing procedures of my OS. I am using Windows, and it is not a multiboot environment. I have only one partition on the disk. I have made no such changes knowingly since I installed the program in November of 2011.
However, now that I have taken a keener interest in this report, I intend to create a batch file to monitor any changes and alert me thereof promptly. Therefore, I have done a thorough review of these data, and I just now noticed one single change that occurred in December of 2011, for which I have no explanation. In fact I do not understand what exactly this item of data represents. I am concerned and I need to find an explanation for it and for the change. Here is the report that I now get:
PARTINFW 1.11
Copyright (c) 1996-2008 TeraByte, Inc. All rights reserved.
Run date: 04/20/2012 1:06
====================================================================
MBR Partition Information (HD0 - 0x0AFCC32C)
(CHS: 1022/254/63) (WCHS: 11674/255/63)
+====+====+=============+====+=============+===========+===========+
| 0: | 80 | 0 1 1 | 7 | 1023 254 63 | 63 | 187542747 |
| 1: | 0 | 0 0 0 | 0 | 0 0 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2: | 0 | 0 0 0 | 0 | 0 0 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 3: | 0 | 0 0 0 | 0 | 0 0 0 | 0 | 0 |
+====+====+=============+====+=============+===========+===========+
BOOT SECTOR INFORMATION
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
File System ID: 0x7 LBA: 63 Total Sectors: 187542747 ID: 0x1
Jump: EB 52 90
OEM Name: NTFS
Bytes Per Sec: 512
Sec Per Clust: 8
Res Sectors: 0
Zero 1: 0x0
Zero 2: 0x0
NA 1: 0x0
Media: 0xF8
Zero 3: 0x0
Sec Per Track: 63
Heads: 255
Hidden Secs: 63
NA 2: 0x0
NA 3: 0x800080
Total Sectors: 0x0B2DACD8
MFT LCN: 0x0B012C
MFT Mirr LCN: 0x010
Clust Per FRS: 0xF6
Clust Per IBlock: 0x1
Volume SN: 0x504886064885EAD4
Checksum: 0x0
Boot Flag: 0xAA55
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Currently, on the seventh line it shows this: MBR Partition Information (HD0 - 0x0AFCC32C)
and it has showed this same data since mid-December.
In the report I initially made and all the subsequent reports until mid-December,
on that line it showed this: MBR Partition Information (HD0 - 0x139349B2).
I do not know what that data represents or why it changed. Can anyone shed some light on it for me? Thanks.
I have this product installed and set to run each time my machine boots, and its boot-time report is appended to the previous one using the Windows Task Scheduler with this command: cmd /c "C:\batch files\MBRPartInfo\PARTINFW.EXE" >>c:\temp\partinfw.log. From time to time I have compared the output data with that in the separate report which I ran initially when I installed the program. I am no expert in MBR issues, but it is my impression that the MBR data in these reports should not change unless I change something in the partitioning or data writing procedures of my OS. I am using Windows, and it is not a multiboot environment. I have only one partition on the disk. I have made no such changes knowingly since I installed the program in November of 2011.
However, now that I have taken a keener interest in this report, I intend to create a batch file to monitor any changes and alert me thereof promptly. Therefore, I have done a thorough review of these data, and I just now noticed one single change that occurred in December of 2011, for which I have no explanation. In fact I do not understand what exactly this item of data represents. I am concerned and I need to find an explanation for it and for the change. Here is the report that I now get:
PARTINFW 1.11
Copyright (c) 1996-2008 TeraByte, Inc. All rights reserved.
Run date: 04/20/2012 1:06
====================================================================
MBR Partition Information (HD0 - 0x0AFCC32C)
(CHS: 1022/254/63) (WCHS: 11674/255/63)
+====+====+=============+====+=============+===========+===========+
| 0: | 80 | 0 1 1 | 7 | 1023 254 63 | 63 | 187542747 |
| 1: | 0 | 0 0 0 | 0 | 0 0 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2: | 0 | 0 0 0 | 0 | 0 0 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 3: | 0 | 0 0 0 | 0 | 0 0 0 | 0 | 0 |
+====+====+=============+====+=============+===========+===========+
BOOT SECTOR INFORMATION
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
File System ID: 0x7 LBA: 63 Total Sectors: 187542747 ID: 0x1
Jump: EB 52 90
OEM Name: NTFS
Bytes Per Sec: 512
Sec Per Clust: 8
Res Sectors: 0
Zero 1: 0x0
Zero 2: 0x0
NA 1: 0x0
Media: 0xF8
Zero 3: 0x0
Sec Per Track: 63
Heads: 255
Hidden Secs: 63
NA 2: 0x0
NA 3: 0x800080
Total Sectors: 0x0B2DACD8
MFT LCN: 0x0B012C
MFT Mirr LCN: 0x010
Clust Per FRS: 0xF6
Clust Per IBlock: 0x1
Volume SN: 0x504886064885EAD4
Checksum: 0x0
Boot Flag: 0xAA55
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Currently, on the seventh line it shows this: MBR Partition Information (HD0 - 0x0AFCC32C)
and it has showed this same data since mid-December.
In the report I initially made and all the subsequent reports until mid-December,
on that line it showed this: MBR Partition Information (HD0 - 0x139349B2).
I do not know what that data represents or why it changed. Can anyone shed some light on it for me? Thanks.